desert1 (dezert)

and n. [Earlier often de sart; He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderne . Deut. xxxii. 10. Than the i zeven the Pilgrimes of here Vitaylle, for to pa e with the Desertes , toward Surrye (Syria). Mandeville , Travels, p. 63. One simile that solitary shines In the dry desert of a you sand lines. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. i. 111. Oh! that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister. Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 177. = Syn. Wilderne , Desert. Strictly, a wilderne is a wild, unreclaimed region, uninhabited and uncultivated, while a desert is largely uncultivable and uninhabitable owing vegetation. In a great majority of the places where desert to lack of moisture. A wilderne may be full of luxuriant occurs in the authorized version of the Bible, the revised version changes it to wilderne . A pathle wilderne remains Yet unsubdued by man's reclaiming hand. Shelley, Queen Mab, ix. Look to America. Two centuries ago it was a wilderne of buffaloes and wolves. Macaulay , Speech, 1846. A patch of sand is unpleasing; a desert has all the awe of ocean. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 318.